Means appointed magistrate judge in S.D.

PIERRE (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has appointed a Huron lawyer to be a new magistrate judge in a judicial circuit that covers 14 counties in the eastern part of the state.

Carmen Means will be sworn in on Friday.

Means graduated from Madison High School in 1985, received an undergraduate degree at George-town University, and then obtained a law degree from Creighton Univ-ersity in 1993. She worked as a public defender and recently was in private practice in Huron.